My brain never ceases to...what?
I think I figured out why I have such a hard time cleaning my apartment or doing anything productive when I'm alone. It has to do with my vivid imagination.
I'm trying to clean and I sit down for a minute. Then it's 15 minutes and I realize my mind is playing back an episode of Charmed I watched a few months ago. Or I'm reliving a scene from my life, remembering (or trying to remember) everything that was said. And I'm so absorbed in my thoughts I don't realize that time is passing around me.
This happens in class sometimes, usually when there's only one student and he is talking and maybe I'm not so interested. And I've gotten so good at nodding at the right parts with the right emotion that I don't realize I'm not grasping a word they're saying until they ask a question.
This is probably my ADD.
So when someone is here cleaning with me, I am constantly reminded of what I'm supposed to be doing. Because I will literally forget every few minutes.
I'm trying to clean and I sit down for a minute. Then it's 15 minutes and I realize my mind is playing back an episode of Charmed I watched a few months ago. Or I'm reliving a scene from my life, remembering (or trying to remember) everything that was said. And I'm so absorbed in my thoughts I don't realize that time is passing around me.
This happens in class sometimes, usually when there's only one student and he is talking and maybe I'm not so interested. And I've gotten so good at nodding at the right parts with the right emotion that I don't realize I'm not grasping a word they're saying until they ask a question.
This is probably my ADD.
So when someone is here cleaning with me, I am constantly reminded of what I'm supposed to be doing. Because I will literally forget every few minutes.